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Virophages are small viruses with double-stranded DNA genomes that co-infect eukaryotic cells along with giant viruses. Virophages …

This is the third and final episode of our series on a giant metagenome assembly … the last two episodes, we’ve covered the specialized software and supercomputers behind this project. But every part … researchers get these specialized snapshots of a freshwater ecosystem. …

Trent Northen’s group at Berkeley Lab created a fabricated ecosystem – an EcoFAB. These small plastic growth chambers let researchers around the world compare their work consistently. And EcoFABs also work well in the classroom. This episode, we visit Los Medanos …

Lake Mendota sits right next to the University of Wisconsin, Madison. And Trina McMahon's lab has been sampling the … lake for over 20 years, to understand how the freshwater ecosystem works.  So a few years ago, when they set out to … project the JGI had ever put together.  The next 3 episodes are the story behind that giant assembly from Lake Mendota. …

… and environments, including natural and agricultural soils, human- and animal-host associated, and ocean and … candidate species groups, 70% of which were novel compared over 500,000 existing genomes available at that time. … team on predicting host-virus connections between all viruses in  IMG/VR (Virus) and the GEM catalog, associating …

Science Program of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science user … accepted through JGI’s calls. Nearly 200 Terabases of data are expected to be generated for the accepted proposals, … Their presence reduces the need to add fertilizers to the soil. diCenzo’s proposal is also notable as he had an …

Blaby-Haas joined the JGI in 2022 as lead of the Biomolecular Materials … in metal homeostasis. She began her independent research career at Brookhaven National Laboratory (2015) where she … Google Scholar … Education … Awards and Service … Selected Publications …

A “bait and hook” single-cell genomic approach to bioprospecting. The Science … an insect or a particular movement, each of these lures are the bait designed to attract specific catches. A similar … to learn more about what microbes are present in any given ecosystem—particularly those that are in low abundances—and …

… of Microbiology (AAM) ! She is among the 68 new Fellows in the Class of 2020, selected from 118 nominees. The … that have advanced microbiology. Academy Fellows are eminent leaders in the field of microbiology and are … reconstructed more than 2,000 genomes of large and giant viruses belonging to the nucleocytoplasmic large DNA viruses …

… with JGI scientists on an ambitious project: to bring in robots to help process experiments that measure microbial activity in soil. Now, the researchers and robots have made these …

WHEN: May 6-10, 2019 WHERE: JGI With DOE investments in graphical processing unit (GPU)-based high-performance computing … event. “The tools we use to process and analyze these data are diverse and porting these codes to GPUs present unique …